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CVE-2005-2384
Directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast! Antivirus Home/Professional…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.5%
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- mitre
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast! Antivirus Home/Professional Edition 4.6.665 and Server Edition 4.6.460, allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via an ACE archive containing filenames with (1) .. or (2) absolute pathnames.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (4)
- 15776 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-20/advisory/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_revision_history.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1014544 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
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